Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science Fiction Movies

[phullmetaljacket]

he should do stand up

[threadysparrow]

they had to silence the word piss?

[InstantFilmBooth]

Don Vito brought me here

[MarcoWeirdOh]

Check out the 2007 film Sunshine, directed by Danny Boyle. Professor Brian Cox served as the film's scientific advisor. Brian Cox is also one of the lead physicists at CERN (the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland). Pretty interesting science fiction movie. One of the best in my opinion.

[SaladStapler]

LOL

[cosmogirl0]

the entire time i was thinking to myself i have to watch the original before the remake comes out to see if it james cameron changes it

[medexamtoolsdotcom]

Oh wait, it's worse than that, it was fifteen pounds of gray matter, not eleven. Geez, how big does he think his brain is?

[medexamtoolsdotcom]

Oh, isn't that nice, a lecture from Mister "eleven pounds of gray matter" on how he has high demands on other people, who are not experts in the science that he is interested in, getting the minor post-production details right when it involves that science that HE is an expert in. VERY inspirational. Well I, for one, am totally with Mr. Cameron the whole time on this one. In fact, you know what, it makes me want to watch his movies again. I think I'll start with The Terminator. I'll be back....

[amandaaddams]

Look, Lady Gaga dressed normally!

[tylerf13ful]

Thats why scifi movies are ASSS!!. Its all about Drama, like GoodFellas, ClockWorkOrange, 2001: A Space Oddesey... shawshank redemption. and literally hundreds more

[WarMasterX6]

I love Neil and agree with scientific accuracy being important but the fiction aspect of science fiction does help and should not always be so restricted. Even if a movie follows no known or accurate science certain ideas it can come up with can lead to people wondering the possibility of such things which can possibly pave the way for new technology that otherwise strict science would not discover on its own. Great video though <3 Love ya Neil!

[mastermachete909]

One of the smartest persons on the known universe....

[Cryofax]

Damn it took him 7 minutes to tell a story that should have taken 1 minute.

[DawnOfTheDead991]

the Black Hole was a total waste

[nakedscrewmonkey]

Whats up with his gettin' up, shakin' his fat can and doin' the ooga booga dance after his story?

I just don't get it....

[gonzo361]

neil tyson and michio kaku would make an awsome team

[lopasas]

watch out we've got a badass over here

[darkoaffliction]

@lopasas Fuck you cancer

[tygamer25]

65001st viewer

[maxedwolf]

He's being facetious, it's an astrophysicist talking about and art form. His definition of science fiction might be a little different then some modern directors (directors have restrictions to what their movie consists of because they have to make it succesful to their taarget audience.) However, NGT says this director has a precedence of showing realistic detail, that's why he was critiquing Titanic specifically.

[DrunkenPoetic]

Art should not try and reflect reality.

That's what makes art important.

[stonedhippopotamus]

Badasses, Badasses everywhere.

[bebeo4]

This just in, Titanic is a science fiction movie.

[KaeptnKlinke]

Watch out we got a badass over here! :D

[MusicMan44144]

Stand up Science!!

[Baldoxxx4000]

He should be on weed so he will be smarter...

[RockBrent]

@Baldoxxx4000 weed makes you stupid

[Brk40]

I bet he gets all the astrophysic bitches.

[robofish500]

Such a badass

[Maxarcc]

laughed so hard at the ending, this guy truely is a great inspiration.

[sassholio]

My only note for NDGT is that he is incredibly long-winded.

[MiketheMutant1993]

@sassholio Well, he's a scientist. He's probably used to writing long academic papers in which he has to detail everything carefully and methodically.

[thekkl]

If you really wanted him to care about the mistake you noticed, you should have found a mistake in 2001: A Space Odyssey instead. Stanley Kubrick would surely have shot himself had such a large mistake been pointed out from his own film.

[ronwandell]

The Black Hole is a great movie.

It is a classic story of travelers breaking down in a storm and needing refuge in a mad scientists mansion. I love it. It is not perfect but I have seen it dozens of times and I worked as an engineer the space program and I can suspend disbelief to enjoy it.

[johnnyphoenix74]

@ronwandell

It IS a great movie....I dont recall it ever making any pretense at being 'scientifically accurate' either, so I dont know why he has such a problem with it.

[colmonhs]

All the links in the video has gone....

[msjessypp]

very interesting video thanks

[ctraiNswagga]

this guy is hilarious

[BigDog91527]

"i could've hooked them up big time with cool black hole stuff"

[AirTrio]

That is soooo coool :-)



[PaladinHero]

This is such an awesome anecdote! It really speaks well of James Cameron's professionalism as well as the good hearted passion of Neil deGrasse Tyson. Such a cool story.

[EdoBlaauwx]

I didn't watch the full clip, but that's really brilliant of cameron

[EdoBlaauwx]

i think it's funny, but it doesn't make the movie more bad, i didn't particularly liked it, but potholes are interesting but for this I don't give a f*ck

[kingmezs23]

Looks like we have a badass over here

[Quetzalcoatlv3p14]

@kingmezs23 LOL where??? which part?

[codeinjection]

@Quetzalcoatlv3p14 It's a "meme"-thing, you'll get it in a week or two.

[RemoWest]

@pmack169 the only rational answer I can give you is that stupid people don't know their stupid.

[fire112germany]

How can someone dislike this clip?

[lukkha1]

he probably had the guy in post production fired

[OxSTFUxO]

LOL this guy has brillient mind with good sense of humer. perfect combination. i laught so much omg xD

[MrWrldpce]

2:48 - 2:52 ..channeling bill bosby

[MetalxXxMayhem]

As intelligent as this guy is, his cool still shows through the nerd. " I could've hooked em up on some cool black hole stuff" xD!! This guy is awesome!!

[Keoni3535]

Great payoff. That was awesome!!

[Bacopa68]

"Don't get me started..." He always says that this and I love him for it.

[craigfromnewcastle]

Excellent!

[Hermy1138]

love this guy

[WhizzBangWhoopee]

Interesting stuff about James Cameron. 

[LadyNightthorn]

I think everybody has one little point of fact that really gets under their skin when people get it wrong. For Dr. Tyson it's the sky. For me it's when people refer to Queen Cleopatra VII as a Pharaoh. I know how such a minor seeming thing can make you crazy.

[fifimsp]

@LadyNightthorn Your right. I'm like this too. I went to Medieval Times which worked hard to give us the cutlery of the time and we'd eat with no forks. whatever, and they were serving freaking potatoes. I leaned over to my husband and pointed out that potatoes are indigenous to the New World and therefore, could not be served in Medieval Europe. He then told me I was the only person in the whole place concerned with this fact. LOL.

[houdin654jeff]

@fifimsp Isn't it a much bigger give away that Coke & Pepsi products were allegedly available in medieval times? Just a question. :D

[fifimsp]

@houdin654jeff Yes, actually and the cardboard hats. The difference is, the one we all go into knowing it's fake and or a modern adaptation the other one is shady. Does that make sense? But now that you mention it when I was 11 and at the renaissance fair I asked the woman for a straw to drink my coke and she said, "what's a straw dear," and I looked at her being a sassy girl and said, "what a coke lady." I thought my mother was going to die. LOL.

[volaju2071]

Neil deGrasse Tyson is the shit. I love this man.

[manwithouthat44]

he talks very slooooow, and cheeeeesy

[rdfox76]

Honestly, I love this. Not only did Tyson point out the error, how much it annoyed him, and how little difference it made in the big picture... he also pointed out that Jim Cameron cared enough to try and get it right when the error was pointed out to him!

[MiketheMutant1993]

@rdfox76 I know. Love both James Cameron and Neil deGrasse Tyson so this is one of my favorite NDT stories.

[deliman]

coolest guy ever...and no, i'm not being sarcastic, i really think he's the coolest guy ever.

[HalfDayClosing]

wonderful!

[sedanosable]

Loooove it!!!

[VanMedia]

he trolling :D

[aModernDandy]

Dr. Tyson doing his Happy Dance - DFTBA!

[JediNg135]

Tyson directed me here.

[Alfonso162008]

I love this guy and I always like to have a film that is "scientifically accurate",but common, who cares of the night sky when you're watching Titanic? Is it really THAT important that you have the correct night sky on this film? I don't think so.

[ManifestMiasma]

@Alfonso162008 Yes it really is that important. It's important to know what the world is made of, what we are made of, how we got here, and how we relate to the Universe. All the little bits are important. To assent to ignorance for the sake of entertainment is the kind of lazy attitude that will cost humanity a sustainable future.

[Alfonso162008]

@ManifestMiasma Dude, it's a movie about a boat that sank in the ocean! What does that have to do with the night sky? Do you really think that a normal guy is gonna care about that? I'm not talking about the scientific knowledge in general. Of course those things you mention are very important, but that's not the point here. The point is that nobody is gonna care if the night sky shown in THIS movie is correct or not.

[LazyJLazy]

Why is he so autistic?

[RebelDreamer]

@LazyJLazy why are you an rude douche?

[Zeus0Moose]

@LazyJLazy He's not. An autistic person would not have such good public speaking skills 99% of the time.

He's merely poking fun at movies' failure to be realistic even when they try, and a bit annoyed about it because he's you know, A SCIENTIST.

[LazyJLazy]

@Zeus0Moose An autistic scintist

[KennethDPedersen]

This is pure win!

[sajinokami]

That story got me laughing. Sometimes you really need to go to movies figuring it is going to be wrong, we are here for fun.. but other times, it just don't fly.

[ShawnsterVideos]

Thanks, NdGT for reading film credits.

-a SAG member & friend of many IATSE Local 52 members

[PenguinInc]

Dr. Tyson, will you be my dad?

[maestbobo]

Disliked because it needs more links on the video.

[EightAlek]

Cool!

We need some scientist guys like him to look into the accuracy of holocaust movies.

[gl1tchofficial]

Great ending to this story!

[FindThisHumerus]

Four people don't understand science.

[JabberCT]

I felt Signs was the most inaccurate of them all. Aliens who die from contact with water invade ...THIS planet? Lets see, fog, rain, garden hoses lol even the air has water content. And these ET dummies had no protective gear on and are running through cornfields at night. Thats impossible to do and not be completely soaked in dew. And their big weapon is a gas that slowly trickles from their wrist. Oooh like thatll come in handy when a firetruck rolls up and sprays their asses lol.

[C0mm0nS3ns3]

The titanic put me to sleep. 

[Lius525]

@Atheisophy wow that so funny, I thought about the guy right after I sent the message. :D Both are great and they can both explain complicated physics stuff without getting audience bored (like 98% of the scientists) and without making it "stupid" (like most of the MSM - I cant lately watch watch most of the stuff from History (lol) channel or Discovery - because 90% of the documentaries are fucking animations and effects without any substance...)

[Lius525]

Neil is closest thing to Carl Sagan in our time. I enjoy listening to him so much! I really recommend his podcast on itunes.

[Diomedes01]

As bad as Armageddon was, for me, the grand daddy of all scientifically inaccurate movies was The Core. I can't even begin to count all the inaccuracies that existed in that steaming pile of turd!

[fifimsp]

@Diomedes01 For me, I loved the movie Sunshine. They had me up until the point of Freddy Crougar showing up. I was like, wow, this is such and awesome movie, it has so much scientific possibilities, this should get some awards and...oh my god, REALLY!

[Selinja]

I totally love this upload! :D It remembers to never piss off a astrophysicist. If a person has the patience to wait for millenia until the light of the stars reaches earth, you can be sure that he will have the endurance to stalk you for the rest of your life ^^

[mastergradeone]

i would love to see him talk about the problems with Armageddon

[otakurai]

this stuff makes my heart happy

[BoobTubeTV]

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is my biological father...

[WispierTetrahedrons]

Just checked out my DVD of Titanic. It's true, and it's laughably horrible! It's seriously a symmetrical pattern of stars.

[KingOfMadCows]

James Cameron should hire Neil deGrasse Tyson as the science advisor for his next movie and to keep his ego in check.

[jerrysinecio]

tyson's a perfect example on how science should be taken to the people

[SmoothCriminal27]

:D

[coolguyAA93]

he inspired me to love science and learn more about. Great Guy.

[karlkawimabrodfdfsfd]

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[JSB741]

What a wank.

[SlapperMcBride]

That's a great ending to the story!

[GamingShadow01]

only neil would notice what the sky should look like.

[IceMetalPunk]

@GamingShadow01 Well, Neil and many other astronomers...

-IMP ;) :)

[AtlasRedux]

Dr. Tyson ... a brilliant mind, now also an entertainer and improver of movies.

All Hail the mighty hero, Dr. Tyson!

[scytheka]

argh! the description should include a spoiler alert...i haven't seen the movie yet and the big twist was revealed  =(

[Mesterse]

Haha, Neil's got moves like a white guy.

[Somebugg]

Love Neil. Too funny!

[adisca]

I think I'm actually in love with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

[Peacenik]

awesome story and story-teller.

[dechausseman]

astrophysicist and humorist

[metacob]

Now thats what happens when a professor gets nerd rage!

[SHEEPSTER1000]

Mr. Tyson is sooooo AWESOME, a GREAT storyteller!!! And the best thing is he is a scientist, they are supposed to be boring!

[rmeddy1]

LOL at spoliers@2:30

[ChurchHatesTucker]

I <3 NDT

This guy is a rock star.

[localfitch]

Stick around for the end of this story... so well told...

[IrisMG]

I just love him! I wish he had been my Physics professor! I might have stayed with it

[jmattos]

Neil is a rock star. My wife got us into the NY MNH to see him for my birthday for about 30 minutes. Best present ever!!!!!!

[GamingShadow01]

i swear his conferences are comedy routines cause he makes my laugh a lot

[xsilvernx]

he's pretty funny

[nolobede]

Only NDT would notice the pattern of the night sky in the North Atlantic...

Funny story.

[SolidSnake032486]

Movies are about poetry not plausibility.

[xavi7734]

Neil talks about how movies aren't accurate and how it pisses him off. I love him.

[UtterlyMoot]

haha! FANTASTIC! NDT is ever bit a storyteller than james cameron is

[the42degrees]

is he drunk? hahahha

love it. what an excellent storyteller

[Squee36]

I love this man. He's a genius and he's so interesting to listen to.

[TankisFrank]

Neil deGrasse Tyson is so awesome XD

[felixq78]

This egocentric piece of shit should get off the stage and go back to his lab.

Wanker!

[O8SERVER]

Neil deGrasse Tyson is the MAN!

[byScrooby]

"God: Hidden Science" - Google it!

[antdude]

Nice. Can't wait to see the correct sky in Titantic movie!

[TerraRone]

It would have been ok if you cried at that point Neil, everyone else was too. They would have thought you were crying about Leo.

[lambent77777]

James Cameron got the sky wrong in Avatar. I hope Neil brings this up... and then does the little dance.

[NorthAmericanSkies]

Far out! You go get 'em, Neil!

[KeeblerLorien]

I enjoyed Dr. Tyson's little dance near the end of the story. Fantastic. :-)

[ryanjcole]

This is HILARIOUS I love it!

[sinbadweezy]

this a great upload